moralizer

noun

Definition of moralizernext
1
as in preacher

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as in moralist

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Recent Examples of moralizer Fowler certainly was a moralizer, just maybe not in the way Jespersen meant. — Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moralizer
  1. preacher
  2. moralist
  3. lecturer
  4. puritan
  5. reader
  6. catechist
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  • In the book, a man known only as the Shepherd, a one-handed, somewhat insane preacher, starts turning the masses of King’s Landing against the Targaryens — and their dragons.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The Burkes were also very religious, with Dawud occasionally serving as a Pentecostal preacher.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of preacher
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  • Twenty years ago, moralists tried to strong arm a Texas private school into removing Annie Proulx’s sensitive story Brokeback Mountain from its curriculum.
    — SPIN Team, SPIN, 22 June 2026
  • Carney is a moralist, a filmmaker of fidelity—and of renunciation, depicting the romantic near-misses and what-ifs that his characters leave behind.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 29 May 2026
Definition of moralist
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  • Efrat Tolkowsky, a Reichman University lecturer and former member of the Tel Aviv City Council representing Meretz, a left-wing party that for years ran on a pro-peace platform, exemplifies that shift.
    — Dina Kraft, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2026
  • From Pakistan’s perspective, the agreement offers both military and political advantages, Raza Rumi, distinguished lecturer at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at CUNY, told Fox News Digital.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026
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  • So this green dress with small spots and an oversized puritan collar was quite appropriate for its time.
    — Katherine J Igoe, InStyle, 1 July 2026
  • However, rather than blithely dismiss the consequences of legalization with eye-rolling contempt for the puritans, supporters should confront the adverse societal effects of cannabis — the pervasive urban stench, the traffic deaths and the pernicious effects on youth.
    — Cory Franklin, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
Definition of puritan
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  • Privacy-preserving techniques such as differential privacy, federated learning, and on-device modeling let a publisher predict reader behavior without ever assembling an identifiable profile in a central warehouse.
    — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
  • But Andersen keeps introducing threats, both external and internal, and the reader can’t help but worry.
    — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of reader
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  • While women cannot be ordained as priests or deacons, they are not forbidden from teaching the faith as theologians, catechists and scholars.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2026
  • Lacchin was quietly transferred to a nearby mission; his driver and a catechist at Archer’s Post, Benjamin Ekwam, was chosen to marry Sabina.
    — Washington Post, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2019
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